1925 in film

The top ten 1925 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows:

• June 26: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll[5]
• September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.
• November 5: MGM's war drama film The Big Parade is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States.
• December 30: MGM's biblical epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million (around $60 million when adjusted for inflation)[6]
• Hong Shen publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany. It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China.[7] Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing (Star) Film Company in this year.

For the complete list of US film releases for the year, see United States films of 1925

• Charlie Chaplin (1914–1940)
• Harold Lloyd (1913–1938)
• Lupino Lane (1915–1939)
• Buster Keaton (1917–1944)
• Laurel and Hardy (1921–1943)
• Our Gang (1922–1944)
• Harry Langdon (1924–1936)

• Felix the Cat (1919–1936)
• Koko the Clown (1919–1963)
• Aesop's Film Fables (1921–1934)
• Alice Comedies
  • Alice Cans the Cannibals
  • Alice the Toreador
  • Alice Gets Stung
  • Alice Solves the Puzzle
  • Alice's Egg Plant
  • Alice Loses Out
  • Alice is Stage Struck
  • Alice Wins the Derby
  • Alice Picks the Champ
  • Alice's Tin Pony
  • Alice Chops the Suey
  • Alice the Jail Bird
  • Alice Plays Cupid
  • Alice Rattled by Rats
  • Alice in the Jungle
• Koko's Song Car Tunes (1924–1927)
• Krazy Kat (1925–1940)
• Un-Natural History (1925–1927)

• January 6 – Enrique Carreras, Peruvian-born director and producer (died 1995)
• January 9 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (died 1989)
• January 13 – Gwen Verdon, American actress and dancer (died 2000)
• January 21 - Charles Aidman, American actor (died 1993)
• January 26
  • Joan Leslie, American actress (died 2015)
  • Paul Newman, American actor (died 2008)
• January 30 – Dorothy Malone, American actress (died 2018)
• February 2 – Elaine Stritch, American actress (died 2014)
• February 3 - John Fiedler, American actor and voice actor (died 2005)
• February 8 – Jack Lemmon, American actor (died 2001)
• February 11 – Kim Stanley, American actress (died 2001)
• February 17
  • Ron Goodwin, English film composer (died 2003)
  • Hal Holbrook, American actor (died 2021)
• February 18 – George Kennedy, American actor (died 2016)
• February 20 – Robert Altman, American director (died 2006)
• February 21 – Sam Peckinpah, American director (died 1984)
• February 25 – Aino Seep, Estonian singer and actress (died 1982)
• February 26 - Selma Archerd, American former actress
• March 11 - Peter R. Hunt, British director, editor and producer (died 2002)
• March 13 - Corrado Gaipa, Italian actor and voice actor (died 1989)
• April 14 – Rod Steiger, American actor (died 2002)
• April 18 – Bob Hastings, American actor (died 2014)
• April 19 – Hugh O'Brian, American actor (died 2016)
• April 28 - Bruce Kirby (actor), American character actor (died 2021)
• May 2 – John Neville, English-Canadian actor (died 2011)
• May 25 – Jeanne Crain, American actress (died 2003)
• May 26 – Alec McCowen, English actor (died 2017)
• June 3 – Tony Curtis, American actor (died 2010)
• June 5 - Henny Orri, Dutch actress (died 2022)
• June 7 – John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer (died 2008)
• June 8 – Charles Tyner, American actor (died 2017)
• June 16 – Otto Muehl, Austrian experimental director (died 2013)
• June 21 – Maureen Stapleton, American actress (died 2006)
• June 25
  • June Lockhart, American actress
  • Virginia Patton, American former actress
• June 29 – Cara Williams, American actress (died 2021)
• July 1 – Farley Granger, American actor (died 2011)
• July 6 – Ruth Cracknell, Australian actress (died 2002)
• July 13 – Huang Zongying, Chinese actress and scriptwriter (died 2020)
• July 14 - Pip Freedman, South African radio comedian and actor (died 2003)
• July 15 – D. A. Pennebaker, American documentary filmmaker (died 2019)
• July 23 – Gloria DeHaven, American actress (died 2016)
• August 11 – Arlene Dahl, American actress (died 2021)
• August 15 – Mike Connors, American actor (died 2017)
• August 22 – Honor Blackman, English actress (died 2020)
• August 23 – Robert Mulligan, American director (died 2008)
• August 27 - Susan Willis, American actress (died 2009)
• August 29 - Dick Cusack, American actor and filmmaker (died 2003)
• September 2 - Ronnie Stevens (actor), English character actor and voice artist (died 2006)
• September 8 – Peter Sellers, English comedian and actor (died 1980)
• September 12 – Dickie Moore, American actor (died 2015)
• September 21 – Noor Jehan, Indian actress (died 2000)
• September 22 - Virginia Capers, American actress (died 2004)
• October 3 – Gore Vidal, American writer and actor (died 2012)
• October 5 – Gail Davis, American actress (died 1997)
• October 11 – Nancy Guild, American actress (died 1999)
• October 16
  • Angela Lansbury, English-American actress
  • Lenka Peterson, American actress (died 2021)
• October 29 – Robert Hardy, English actor (died 2017)
• November 4 – Doris Roberts, American actress (died 2016)
• November 6 - Michel Bouquet, French actor (died 2022)
• November 10 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor (died 1984)
• November 11 - Jonathan Winters, American comedian, actor, author, television host and artist (died 2013)
• November 17 – Rock Hudson, American actor (died 1985)
• November 22 - Carla Balenda, American former actress
• November 25 – June Whitfield, English comic actress (died 2018)
• December 2 – Julie Harris, American Broadway and film actress (died 2013)
• December 3 – Kaljo Kiisk, Estonian actor and director (died 2007)
• December 8 – Sammy Davis Jr., American singer, dancer, musician and actor (died 1990)
• December 12 – Anne V. Coates, English film editor (died 2018)
• December 13 – Dick Van Dyke, American actor
• December 18 – Peggy Cummins, Welsh-born Irish actress (died 2017)
• December 23 - Harry Guardino, American actor (died 1995)
• December 28 – Hildegard Knef, German actress, singer and writer (died 2002)

• January 24 - Wilton Taylor, American actor (born 1869)
• February 4 - William Haggar, British cinema pioneer (born 1851)[24]
• February 6 - James Kenyon, English businessman and cinema pioneer (born 1850)
• February 7 – Edward Jobson, American actor (born 1860)
• February 25 – Louis Feuillade, French director (born 1873)
• March 13 – Lucille Ricksen, American actress (born 1910)
• April 8 – Thecla Åhlander, Swedish actress (born 1855)
• April 13 – Frederik Buch, Danish actor (born 1875)
• April 16 – David Powell, Scottish actor (born 1883)
• July 29 – Mark Fenton, American actor (born 1866)
• September 28 – Paul Vermoyal, French actor (born 1888)
• October 21 – Orme Caldara, American stage and film actor (born 1875)
• October 31 – Max Linder, French actor (born 1883)
• November 1 – Lester Cuneo American actor (born 1888)
• November 3 – Lucile McVey, American actress (born 1890)
• December 8 – Marguerite Marsh, American actress (born 1888)
• December 9 – Harry Rattenberry, American actor (born 1857)
• December 21 – Lottie Lyell, Australian director/producer (born 1890)
• December 22 – Mary Thurman, American actress (born 1895)
• December 24 - James O. Barrows, American stage and screen actor (born 1855)
• December 31 – J. Gordon Edwards American director (born 1867)

• Walter Brennan – Webs of Steel
• Gary Cooper – Dick Turpin
• Joan Crawford – Lady of the Night
• Stepin Fetchit – The Mysterious Stranger
• Phillips Holmes – Her Market Value
• Myrna Loy – What Price Beauty?
• Tim McCoy – The Thundering Herd
• Anita Page – A Kiss for Cinderella
• Dolores del Río – Joanna
• Gilbert Roland – The Plastic Age

• Block, Alex Ben; Wilson, Lucy Autrey, eds. (2010). George Lucas's Blockbusting: A Decade-by-Decade Survey of Timeless Movies Including Untold Secrets of Their Financial and Cultural Success. HarperCollins. ISBN 978-0-06-177889-6.